On being Mobbed

A couple of months back, the south mobbing house owner finally put his house on the market. It sold quickly and in a recent blog entry I noted that the PowPow SSID no longer appeared in network surveys. I spoke too soon.

As you can see above, PowPow is still there although it appears that the devices that were included in PowPow might have been redistributed to a few others and joined to a new SSID. When I performed the surveys used to create the screenshots here, the house was sold and either in escrow or transitioning out of it. Other people were at the house and during the time I was in my Seattle home, I was relentlessly harassed and the sound cropped up on every side of the house depending on where I was.

I don’t recall if I performed a new NetSpot survey from scratch by the time I did the above screenshot. The signal levels remained similar and despite the invisibility of PowPow, things were not markedly changed.

The screen clip above shows the quantity of access points. Red indicates five or more. Blue indicates no access points at the time of the survey. The signal indicated that notes a reading of 63 remains one of the strongest and appears close to the usual position of my Roku and television, about ten feet from the property line shared with the north mobbing house and within line of sight of multiple large windows.

The above screenshot from an Airtool capture rendered in Wireshark shows the Eatlutefisk SSID, which has generally been a companion to PowPow and appears to have increased in visibility with the reshuffling of the WiFi extenders since the south mobbing house was sold. The mobbing began a few years after the north and south mobbing house owners moved in. It was preceded by the build-up of an increasingly hostile environment. It took time to realize that what was happening extended beyond a corrupt and scheming neighborhood watch. Eventually other civil events that are detailed on On being mobbed unfolded and it became clear that it was a criminal attempt to forcibly evict at least three tenants occupying single-family homes, myself included. Of course, since I lived alone and am a woman, it appears those involved thought they could get away with anything, even harming me with electrical interference, radio-frequency interference, tampering with devices as I used them, and subjecting me to sleep deprivation, constant verbal abuse, and malicious sound in harmful ranges.

This screenshot also includes Honeywell frames, which brings me to another prominent aspect of how the rogue sound appears to be at least distributed by air. But Honeywell also has IoT software, which is likely at play in the whole-house harassment that I’ve experienced, both in Seattle and then, likely by arrangement of those in Seattle, in my family home and at the hands of more than one neighbor including the “block coordinator” across the street and the lowlife who married into the family that owns the house to the north and may be involved in a sideline of harassing neighbors out of their homes almost certainly for some form of payment. In Seattle, an air-conditioning unit just on the other side of a hedge tends to stay on for protracted periods of time, even when the house is not occupied, as though to prime the harassing machine for the night’s harassment.

Over time, I’ve begun to try to mitigate the coming harassment at night by “dampening” the separating fences and hedges and the area around my bedroom to diminish the WiFi signal to the extent that might be possible. I also wet the 4×8 pieces of plywood over a bedroom window that has easy access from the back yard and windows of the north mobbing house. On the south and east sides, I even wet the pavement. This does not stop the nasty neighborhood watch lady and her minions from making sure transmitting devices like the Samsung phone seen in professional heat maps shown in other blogs are always deployed if I’m within reach or am using a device within range.

One of the things I haven’t talked much about was that before I started noticing powerline extenders in Albany, I began noticing in the NetSpot survey that an extender was deployed horizontally along her parking strip, beneath power lines that connected to those running from her side of the street to mine. In Albany, the WiFi extenders deployed by those involved may also connect to those running under power lines. I’ve wondered about this as a tactic used to boost signal at unshielded connections or create a powerline connection. As I write this, I remember reading on the UK site seeking to ban powerline connections, about how powerline connections can increase radiation not just back to the transformer but onto the electric wires that connect to the services of other houses. I think the way it works may be that the extenders are deployed through and around the victim house for access and to create access points (if the leakage of radio frequency from outlets that is associated with powerline connections does not behave like an access point or port), with others connecting to them from other points in the neighborhood and ample call-in opportunities to systems like the Sonos that allow for conversion of sources and file types whose content can then be rebroadcast over the local extenders, even when no one is home. In the victim house, it seems possible that devices and appliances become subject to management by hostile IoT management programs and may thereby end up functioning as access points or “hot spots” as rogue WiFi is deployed over them. I don’t know if it’s the case, but it seems possible, especially if powerline connections can be deployed onto their power supplies. I’ve also started to wonder if one of the reasons for the similarities in the expression of the harassment in cars vis-a-vis apparent acoustic leakage, mitigation by cracking windows, exacerbation by use of fans, and so on, might indicate the use of WiFi extenders from a distance based on the MAC identifiers of components of the automobile or perhaps even some other identifier like RFID tags. When the criminals who do this live next door, it’s easy for them to gather information about all your devices, your appliances, and your car.

The same themes continue in Albany, California, where a “block coordinator” who might have been called a neighborhood watch captain a few years back, appears deeply involved. More on that in the next post on the culture of hate in Albany; I’ve been battered so much with what appears to be higher frequency or ultrasonic sound distributed by refrigerator these last nights that I haven’t finished it yet — I misspoke but it’s probably high-frequency sound given the focus on electric power. Those who are the most obviously involved in the mobbing in Albany do not appear to have the higher incomes that those in the Seattle venture do. So where the north mobbing house in Seattle has the always running air-conditioning unit, in Albany, the lowlife to the north uses window-positioned air-conditioners, for example, about eight feet from windows on the north side of the house, making it hazardous to open the windows and ensuring that the verbal harassment and noise is more audible with them closed.

The refrigerator referenced in the above frame is in Seattle. I don’t have smart refrigerators on either end, but if IoT management software is in play, based on the role of the refrigerator in both places in the distribution of radiating harassment, it’s possible that a hostile WiFi network is deployed based on extenders and IoT software that then takes the dumb victim devices under management. The management application could then be used to give them different device profiles and to assign them different MAC addresses. The result would be that you’d have to have data and a deep understanding of the behavior of the wireless network and devices to understand whose devices they were. Those who are involved in mobbing are certainly not going to share information about the MAC addresses of the devices managed by their applications. Heat maps with GPS capabilities would probably help to prove this depending on the granularity of the mapping. [Note 12/07/21: It might also be possible for IoT management software to be restricted to the management of devices within one plat identified by GPS coordinates or for at least smart devices to refuse to be managed by servers or devices that are not associated with a set of GPS coordinates. But it would be difficult to overcome signal strength; FCC failure to constrain signal strength and prohibit the use of powerline technology is a significant vulnerability.] I don’t think NetSpot has that yet and if you had a network professional come onsite to do a heat map with GPS mapping, IoT devices would probably detect the visitor and the extenders could be disabled for the duration of the visit. There could probably be a cloud-based, consumer-friendly heat mapping application that would allow you to plot your devices on a heat map by walking around the house with your smart phone but the problem is ensuring that they cannot be taken under management by a rogue operator. Ultimately, the problem is the deployment of WiFi extenders and networks over the property line.

With all of the Technicolor routers in play, the use of unadvertised networks provided by Century Link (the AT&T of Seattle) and guest networks to deploy what might in essence be a low-power television station onto the devices and appliances of the victim comes forward. This is based on my experience with having the Technicolor router and, earlier on, the Prism television service. Comcast infrastructure and access points are also used to create whole-house antenna effect and distribute wireless sound harassment and interference throughout the victim environment. Transmitters including phones are deployed from cars parked within range; harassment that is transmitted from longer distances terminates with other transmitters in short-range positions. Call-in harassment makes it easy to “strangers-on-a-train” the mobbing victim in a “you-harass-my-neighbors-and-I’ll-harass-yours” kind of scheme and confuse investigators as to the origin of the harassment and the involvement of the neighbors who provision the devices for the final hop of the transport route. The IoT devices that track and the IoT devices and systems used to fundamentally enable and transmit the constant harassment can all be deployed from over the property line and outside of the victim’s control.

There is no resolution for mobbing unless the police, the FBI, the FCC and the municipalities where cases are noted act to stop it. There’s no excuse for allowing someone to be harassed in their home to and beyond the point of harm by scamming racketeers, predators and profiteers who lack any compunction. There is no excuse to allow this to happen to home owners who pay the taxes that support city government or to their tenants who often pay those taxes with each month’s rent. Cities and towns should value those who own homes in their communities and those who seek to rent in them by making sure that criminals who harass people out of their homes, whether for hate or for profit, cannot do so in their cities and townships. They must stand up and believe those who try to report such crimes, as difficult as it is to believe that such things can happen, and they must not ignore it.

To do anything about it at all, you must understand that when the crime is tech-enabled, victims may not be able to speak freely. If a victim of such a crime calls the police, her calls may be intercepted. When police respond to such calls, even if they are not corrupted by some reciprocal relationship between block watch captains or coordinators and officers, and even if scanners are not in play, IoT triggers will likely ensure that the criminal harassment stops on approach, that the criminals using technology to batter and coerce stop their violence for the moment, and that the police will be denied any element of surprise. In my case, morning after morning, the Albany Police could investigate and stop my being battered in my bed by radiation and sound. Perhaps they could save the life I may well lose because I’ve defended my civil, human and legal rights to home for years without help. This is a scam by criminal profiteers who could care less if they tamper with medical devices. All the better to frighten you. All it would take is a surveillance drone, for example, equipped with network tools and with a sensitive microphone at the right range to hear what might have been some likely ultrasonic radio hack (I misspoke here as well, writing it as infrasonic, but given the involvement of electric power, it is probably ultrasonic) that I’ll write more about later planted in the engine of an old car that the lowlife to the north and his buddy pulled up into his driveway yesterday, later talking about how whatever device they put inside the engine compartment so close to my electric meter had a range of some 15 yards. All it would take in a case of whole-house harassment from next door with phones, is collecting data. All it would take is local police telling the FBI that they have a lead on an unusual case of stalking that started with a neighborhood watch group in Seattle and might now involve a block coordinator in Albany, and that both situations appear to involve some kind of tech-enabled real estate scam. I’m sure those who would be spared having this happen to them would be grateful something was finally done. Crime increasingly incorporates digital aspects; the police should not be ignoring crimes because they don’t understand them and don’t know how to deal with them. This neglect encourages the problem to escalate. What criminal doesn’t want his crimes to be ignored.

All it would take, is officers who care about it when someone tells them that they’re being tracked in their own home instead of allowing themselves to be used by corrupt block coordinators to harass people out of their homes. Maybe all it would take, is patrolling the area, even stopping and having a cup of joe parked in front of the house of someone who says her neighbors are using technology to harass her out of her home–and one has openly demanded (face-to-face) that she move–and every morning at dawn when she has her router off might be a good time to happen along, even if you’re seen and the harassment is not witnessed. All it would take for many cases like this, is a lack of bias or at least a willingness to unlearn it, and a willingness to use plain old basic police investigation skills. There’s no reason in a town little more than a mile square that the city and police should ignore the criminal battering of legal residents from their homes with the involvement of one or more city and police-installed block coordinators, whether for hate or for profit. All it takes, is a city that cares.